Yes, that is very helpful especially if I have to go the route of scripting it all.

I just tried the alias route, and it appears to do the same thing....

Thanks for the reply.

I'm aware of that option, and actually pursued it briefly.

How to transfer logins and passwords between instances of SQL Server

This article describes how to transfer the logins...

You could use a CLR as well.

A few more:

http://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/details/642004/denali-xp-fixeddrives-does-not-display-mounted-volume-information-on-a-cluster

http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/tarad/archive/2007/12/18/60435.aspx

may look through the comments here:

http://sqlblog.com/blogs/andy_leonard/archive/2010/05/27/t-sql-snack-how-much-free-storage-space-is-available.aspx

Here's one way to deal with Mount points.

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/blogs/adventuresinsql/2010/11/15/get-drive-space-including-mount-points/%5B/url%5D

Greg, I assume are talking about this whitepaper for Sharepoint 2010?

Haven't heard of the KerbBuddy tool.

Just found this today on a problem...

Looks interesting and I'll probably walk through it first chance I get.

Check the link for the FreeNAS download:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8/%5B/url%5D

Here's a post where I mentioned some of the issues I ran into:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic780491-9-1.aspx#bm902766

http://sqlblog.com/blogs/buck_woody/archive/2010/06/29/the-windows-page-file-and-sql-server.aspx

I know this is a really old post, but this might be helpful for others.

http://sqlblog.com/blogs/buck_woody/archive/2010/06/29/the-windows-page-file-and-sql-server.aspx

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1163960/sql-server-2008-reporting-services-authentication

Something else I've run into so far.

There was already a default instance of SQL 2008 on the server that I installed SQL 2000 Enterprise on.

Because of this, there are some...

I'm installing it right now as a test for something. Don't plan on using it for production and it's recommended that you don't.

The only issue I've hit so far is...

I just had a developer who had this same issue.

Turns out he was trying to open a SQL 2008 database with SSMS 2005.

He opened up SSMS 2008 and the problem...

The way that I'm doing it currently is to save the template out on a network share and then have them copy it to that location locally.

More documentation on this...